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The core White House staff appointments, and most Executive Office of the President officials generally, are not required to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, with a handful of exceptions (e.g., the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the chair and members of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the United States trade representative).

There are about 4,000 positions in the Executive Office of the President.

Huyen “Steven” Cheung (born June 23, 1982) is an American political advisor serving as President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign spokesman in the 2024 United States presidential election. He previously worked in Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns. He also worked in communications for the sports organization Ultimate Fighting Championship based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In November 2024, he was named White House communications director for the incoming Donald Trump administration.

Tulsi Gabbard (born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and military officer serving as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve since 2021. Gabbard served as U.S. representative for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021. She also served as the youngest state legislator in Hawaii from 2002 to 2004. She was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.

She left the Democratic Party in 2022 to become an independent. In 2024, she joined the Republican Party. In November 2024, President-elect Trump selected Gabbard for the position of director of national intelligence in his second term, starting January 2025.

For more information on her congressional experience, see Gabbard’s Hawaii onAir post.

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Jamieson Lee Greer (born 1979/1980) is an American attorney and veteran who is the presumptive nominee for United States trade representative in the second Trump administration.

A Republican, he previously served in the first Trump administration as chief of staff to the United States trade representative from 2017 to 2020 and is currently a partner in international trade at King & Spalding.

Michael John Kotsakas Kratsios (born November 7, 1986) is an American business executive and government official. He served as the fourth Chief Technology Officer of the United States at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In this role, Kratsios served as President Donald Trump’s top technology advisor. From July 10, 2020 to January 20, 2021, Kratsios was also the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.

On December 22, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Kratsios as the next Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President, a Cabinet-level position.

Karoline Claire Leavitt (born August 24, 1997) is an American political aide currently serving as the national press secretary for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. She previously served as an assistant press secretary and presidential writer during the first Donald Trump administration as well as a spokesperson for MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump Super PAC. In 2022, she ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in New Hampshire’s 1st district, winning the Republican nomination before losing in the general election to incumbent Chris Pappas.

On November 15, 2024, president-elect Donald Trump chose Leavitt as his White House press secretary to succeed Karine Jean-Pierre. She will be the youngest press secretary in United States history.

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Kelly Lynn Loeffler (born November 27, 1970) is an American businesswoman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2020 to 2021. Loeffler was announced as the presumptive nominee for the Administrator of the Small Business Administration on December 5, 2024 by President-elect Trump.

Loeffler was chief executive officer (CEO) of Bakkt, a subsidiary of commodity and financial service provider Intercontinental Exchange, of which her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is CEO. She is a former co-owner of the Atlanta Dream of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Loeffler is a member of the Republican Party.

For more information on her US Senator experience, see Loeffler’s Georgia onAir post.

Stephen Miller (born August 23, 1985) is an American political advisor who served as a senior advisor for policy and White House director of speechwriting to President Donald Trump. His politics have been described as far-right and anti-immigration. He was previously the communications director for then-Senator Jeff Sessions. He was also a press secretary for U.S. representatives Michele Bachmann and John Shadegg.

As a speechwriter for Trump, Miller helped write Trump’s 2017 inaugural address. He was a key adviser from the early days of Trump’s presidency. An immigration hardliner, Miller was a chief architect of Trump’s travel ban, the administration’s reduction of refugees accepted to the United States, and Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents. He prevented the publication of internal administration studies that showed that refugees had a net positive effect on government revenues. Miller reportedly played a central role in the resignation in April 2019 of Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, whom he believed was insufficiently hawkish on immigration.

In November 2024, it was announced that Miller would serve as Trump’s homeland security advisor and deputy chief of staff for policy in his second term.

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Elon Reeve Musk (/ˈiːlɒn mʌsk/; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. He is also known for his ownership of X Corp. (the company that operates the social media platform X, formerly Twitter), and his role in the founding of the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI. Musk is the wealthiest individual in the world; as of January 2025, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$421 billion.

By early 2024, Musk became active in American politics as a vocal and financial supporter of US presidential candidate Donald Trump, becoming the largest political donor of the 2024 election. After winning in November, Trump announced that he had chosen Musk along with Vivek Ramaswamy to co-lead his planned Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory board, which is tasked with removing regulations in order to reduce expenditures and increase government efficiency.

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John Lee Ratcliffe (born October 20, 1965) is an American politician and attorney who served as the director of national intelligence from 2020 to 2021. He previously served as the U.S. representative for Texas’s 4th district from 2015 to 2020. During his time in Congress, Ratcliffe was regarded as one of the most conservative members. Ratcliffe also served as mayor of Heath, Texas, from 2004 to 2012 and acting United States attorney for the Eastern District of Texas from May 2007 to April 2008.

President Donald Trump announced on July 28, 2019, that he intended to nominate Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence. Ratcliffe withdrew after Republican senators raised concerns about him, former intelligence officials said he might politicize intelligence, and media revealed Ratcliffe’s embellishments regarding his prosecutorial experience in terrorism and immigration cases.

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Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy (born August 9, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and politician. He founded Roivant Sciences, a pharmaceutical company, in 2014. In February 2023, Ramaswamy declared his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 United States presidential election.

He suspended his campaign in January 2024, after finishing fourth in the Iowa caucuses and proceeded to endorse Trump’s candidacy. On November 12, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced that Ramaswamy and businessman Elon Musk had been tasked to lead the newly proposed Department of Government Efficiency.

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Elise Marie Stefanik (born July 2, 1984) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York’s 21st congressional district. As chair of the House Republican Conference since 2021, she is the fourth-ranking House Republican. Stefanik’s district covers most of the North Country and the Adirondack Mountains, some of the outer suburbs of Utica, and the Capital District in New York.

In addition to being the first woman to occupy her House seat, Stefanik was 30 when first elected to the House in 2014, making her the youngest woman elected to Congress at the time.

On November 10, 2024, President-elect Trump announced Stefanik would serve as the United States ambassador to the United Nations.

For more information on her congressional experience, see Stefanik’s New York onAir post.

Russell Thurlow Vought (IPA: /voʊt/, pronunciation respelling: VOHT born March 26, 1976), is an American government official who was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from July 2020 to January 2021. He was previously deputy director of the OMB for part of 2018, and acting director from 2019 to 2020.

In 2021, Vought founded the organization the Center for Renewing America, which is focused on combating critical race theory. He is involved with Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation-led plan that seeks to reshape the federal government. Vought was named policy director of the Republican National Committee platform committee in May 2024.

Michael George Glen Waltz (born January 31, 1974) is an American politician, businessman, author, and colonel for 20th Special Forces Group within the Florida Army National Guard who has served as the U.S. representative for Florida’s 6th congressional district since 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party and is the first “Green Beret” to be elected to the United States Congress.

Waltz is considered one of Congress’s most hawkish members with regard to China, believing that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in a cold war with the U.S. In 2021, he was the first member of Congress to call for a full U.S. boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over what he described as the CCP’s genocide and internment of Chinese Uyghur populations and the enslavement, forced labor, and internment camps of ethnic minorities in China.

On November 12, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced he will appoint Waltz to serve as National Security Advisor in his second administration.

For more information on his congressional experience, see Waltz’s Florida onAir post.

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Susan Wiles  (born May 14, 1957) is an American political consultant who served as co-chair of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, having previously served as CEO of Trump’s leadership PAC Save America, and as co-chair of his 2016 campaign in Florida. She is a member of the Republican Party

She served as campaign manager of Rick Scott’s successful 2010 gubernatorial campaign. After the first election of Donald Trump, she became a senior advisor for Ron DeSantis’s successful 2018 gubernatorial campaign. She would later describe working for DeSantis as the “biggest mistake” of her entire career.

On November 7, 2024, she was selected by President-elect Trump to serve as the 32nd White House chief of staff in his second administration, set to begin in January 2025. She will be the first woman to hold the position in U.S. history.

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Lee Michael Zeldin (born January 30, 1980) is an American attorney, politician, and officer in the United States Army Reserve. A member of the Republican Party, he represented New York’s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2023. He represented the eastern two-thirds of Suffolk County, including most of Smithtown, all of Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Southampton, East Hampton, Shelter Island, and a small part of Islip. From 2011 to 2014, Zeldin served as a member of the New York State Senate from the 3rd Senate district.

In November 2024, CNN reported that Zeldin was Trump’s nominee for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

For more information on his congressional experience, see Zeldin’s New York onAir post.